Laundry

Yesterday I used my washing machine for the first time. Until now I’ve been washing things by hand or just not washing things at all, which is common here. However, I finally decided I should face my fears. The washing machine looks innocuous, a four foot by three foot brown box with wheels. However, it has intimidated me since I arrived and learned how it works.
Step 1: attach a plastic hose to the sink. The water from the sink fills the main box of the washing machine. Add soap. When the water level seems high enough, add the clothes. Turn the switch on to agitate the clothes.
Step 2: when the agitation is done, use another hose to drain the water form the washing machine onto the floor of the bathroom, which has a drain in the middle. It takes a while to do this, since you don’t want the water from the bathroom floor to overflow to the next room.
Step 3: refill the machine with clean water to rinse the clothes and run the agitator again.
Step 4: drain and repeat step 3.
Step 5: drain the water, wring the clothes out and put them into the small spinner next to the main comportment to spin the water out. (However, mine is off balance and makes horrendous noises, so I may wither skip this step or use another teacher’s machine to do this.)
Step 6: hang the clothes on the line in my porch.

Actually, this whole process was not as difficult as I thought it might be, but it is time consuming. Having conquered this fear, it’s time to face another, though I’m not sure I’m ready to climb the rickety rungs to the roof just yet.